Pablo Ruiz Picasso

¿Who was Pablo Ruiz Picasso?

• Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist and painter, who revolutionized not only painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics, but the way in which the public appreciate art.

¿Where was he born?

• Picasso was born in Malaga, a big and sunnycity in the south coastof Andalusia, in 1881.

• His father, José Ruiz Blasco, was also anartist, art teacher and Picasso´s first teacher.

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• When he was 10 yearsold his family move toLa Coruña, where he continues to study art and both his father and his mother, Maria Picasso, give him full support, trust and encouragement.

As an adult …

He get into the High School of Arts in Barcelona. He wants to be a modern artist and invent a new way of painting.

As an adult …

To improve paints a lot. He´s inspired by everything he see on their trips to Paris and Spain.

Picasso is…..

• Picasso is considered the most important 20th century artist and one of the most influential in the development of modern art. There are over 1500 of his works in museums around the world.

Blue period

• He made works that used the blues. Almost all of them denote much sadness and show elongated figures of beggars and street characters.

Pink period

• Picasso goes into a happier period and paints scenes of clowns and circuses, with a colorful brighter.

• The Rose Period began in 1904 and lasted until 1907.

Cubist period• He is looking for a pure painting and

begins to observe objects in his workshop through an intellectual way and looking at them figures basic geometric.

Surrealism period• At this time he uses the

distorted shapes and represents the monstrous part of each live being.

Expressionism period: Guernica

Guernica was pinted as a reaction to the Nazi's devastating casual bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during Spanish Civil War. It shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. It has become in an anti-war symbol.

Made by: Isabel Mª. Trigo IllanaTranslated by: Ana Mª. Sánchez Rodríguez